Participants

Jami Attenberg is the author of a story collection, Instant Love, and three novels, The Kept Man, The Melting Season and The Middlesteins, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. She has contributed essays and criticism to The New York Times, Real Simple, Elle, The Washington Post and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Attenberg presents her highly anticipated new novel, Saint Mazie, which introduces readers to Mazie Phillips, the big-hearted, bawdy, truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater.

Tom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel The Last Good Chance and the New York Times bestseller On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal. He has been published in a variety of publications, including Tin House, McSweeney’s and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and his work has been performed on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts series. Barbash presents Stay Up with Me, a collection of deeply resonant stories exploring the ways we attempt to connect with one another in an often cruel world.

Grace O’Connell is the author of The Globe and Mail Best Book Magnified World and 2014 winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award. She holds an MFA in creative writing, and her work has appeared in various publications including The Walrus, Taddle Creek, The Globe and Mail, National Post and Elle Canada. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto and works as a freelance writer and editor. She presents Be Ready For The Lightning.
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Kim Scott writes novels, short stories and poetry. He is the award-winning author of Benang: From the Heart, which won the Western Australia Premier’s Book Award and the Miles Franklin Award, Australia’s most prestigious literary prize. Scott presents That Deadman Dance, about the early contact between European settlers and the Noongar people of Western Australia’s south coast. Young native Bobby Wabalanginy is eager to join the Europeans when they appear on his shores, but not everyone feels the same way, and soon Bobby, a friend to both parties, is forced to take sides.

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